NetScout®
Systems, Inc., today announced IPC®
Systems, Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading
communications solutions, is using the nGenius®
Service Assurance Solution for comprehensive, real-time performance
management of its cloud-based Connexus Financial Extranet service
and other products in its Financial Market Network Portfolio. These IPC
services have more than 4,500 on net sites, including more than 50
liquidity venues, in 700 cities and nearly 60 countries. IPC is using
the nGenius solution to proactively monitor the health of
business-critical streaming market data feeds, trade transaction
performance and managed IP telephony services.

Connexus helps IPC's global clients connect to their customers,
liquidity venues and application and data providers, and at the same
time, enables clients to achieve increased flexibility, responsiveness
and cost effectiveness. NetScout gives IPC real-time service visibility
and enables proactive service
delivery management across its globally distributed cloud network
and data center infrastructure. The nGenius solution provides highly
optimized views of order messages and market data feeds to better
understand latency and performance associated with trade execution order
flow and network performance. The nGenius solution recognizes more than
800 data feed formats and protocols, including ARCA, CME, LSE, NASDAQ,
NSX, NYSE, and messaging platforms and feed handlers based on 29West,
IBM LLM/PGM, TIBCO and custom protocols. IPC has gained granular
visibility into its complex service delivery infrastructure to identify
performance degradation, including undesired latency and dropped packets
that could impair timely and accurate delivery of market data feeds or
financial transaction execution. In addition, the nGenius solution
supports IPC's bandwidth management practices for both peak utilization
and rate limitations, providing tools to scale and adapt the IPC network
and achieve better insight into customer capacity needs as traffic
volumes change over time.

“We are supporting our customers' various financial market requirements
through a robust global network. Connexus is trusted by financial
organizations around the world in both emerging and established markets
for rapid trading and market data connectivity. Poor service performance
or network downtime can have significant financial ramifications on our
customers and on our reputation,” said Tim Carmody, vice president,
network services and engineering at IPC. “We chose NetScout's solution
to be part of the comprehensive capabilities available to us for
managing Connexus because NetScout has a proven track record in
delivering a high-performance, scalable service delivery management
solution for trading networks. NetScout helps us achieve peak service
performance, reduces our mean time to knowledge for problem resolution
and supports the roll out of new revenue-generating services.”

IPC customers are increasingly demanding detailed information about
service levels, including identification and proof of where service
issues reside. This can be particularly challenging in IPC's global,
carrier-agnostic service delivery environment, which includes
multi-jurisdictional service-level agreements that IPC must manage as
traffic traverses the networks of financial exchanges, diverse bandwidth
providers and IPC's own network. With the nGenius solution, IPC is able
to quickly identify and resolve performance issues and also predict and
prevent future faults before any impact to an end-user, thereby
promoting the integrity of IPC's managed service. NetScout not only
identifies real-time performance dynamics, but also supports historical
analysis and reporting to perform detailed forensics of performance
incidents.

“In the fast-paced trading environment, financial transactions must be
delivered at ultra-high speeds. Microseconds and even nanoseconds truly
matter because if you are not first, you are last. Message and
transaction latency and disruptions to the service delivery environment
can result in an undesirable impact on trade execution with profound
financial outcomes,” said Steven Shalita, vice president, marketing,
NetScout. “We are pleased to have been selected by IPC as their service
delivery management platform to help them more efficiently manage
latency, packet loss and performance issues associated with the high
volume of transactions in their extensive global environment. The IPC
deployment builds upon NetScout's large number of deployments in the
financial services and capital market environments and adds deployment
in cloud-based services.”

About NetScout Systems, Inc.

NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified
Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network
and application assurance. For 28 years, NetScout has delivered
breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and
comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence
enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These
solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and
service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and
capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius® and
Sniffer® solutions are deployed at more than 20,000 of the world's
largest enterprises, government agencies, and more than 148 service
providers, on more than one million physical and 2,000 virtual network
segments to assure network, applications, and service delivery to their
users and customers. For more information about NetScout go to www.netscout.com.